Computer Issues and Crafting - They don't mix well.

Today was supposed to be an awesome day. I took my daughter to work and then I was going to spend the day working on several things. I made a few stops to see if I couldn't find a cheap webcam that would be compatible with Windows 10. I have a perfectly good webcam, but it seems to have issues with Windows 10. Crazy, I know... considering its a Microsoft Life Cam. That turned out to be a bust, because no offence... I've spent more money than I can right now getting ready for A-Kon in the next few weeks.

I got home and was ready to go. I had a lot to do after all. I had all the plans made in my head as I was out and about this morning. I was going to revamp the blog a little. I was going to research the pictures I probably needed to show... "This is what I'm working on today and this is how I'm doing it." I was literally rehearsing my speech in the car. I was so excited to test this new journey I wanted to go on. Plus I had a few things I wanted to research.

Got home, swapped out the dishes like a good little girl and went strait for my computer, to start my day's journey into the cosplay community.

"Unmountable Boot Volume Error - Restarting system..."

This was a loop that lasted a few time. It would get into the repair mode and then... nothing. I would force a restart.... and... nothing. Luckily, I did have a few things at my disposal that allowed me to connect to the internet and search for a fix. I had a corrupted boot file and no way to fix it, except for a complete tear down and reinstall. That was good and bad. Good, because my computer was prepackaged and came with a separate internal hard drive that does nothing by house the OS. Bad because I bought the computer with Windows 7 pre-installed.

Once again, the fates smiled upon me and gave me hope. I was able to get into System Recovery mode and get the backup started. A little while later, I was ready to reinstall. Not a few minutes after that... I was booting up to a fresh and clean Windows 7 screen. HAZAH! Went through and disabled or uninstalled all the bloatware. But then I was hit with a very... VERY interesting idea. I had a perfectly good webcam that wouldn't work with Windows 10. I can apparently reinstall Windows 10 until July 29th. I think I'm keeping Windows 7 for a little while until I can afford a new webcam.

So my day was a bust for the most part. I did manage to bring my computer back from the dead. I was able to make the older webcam work. I've pretty much got everything installed again. Yay me.